Liner for electrical connecters



July 17, 1928., 1,677,332

M. M. CLAYTON I LINER EOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTERS Filed June '7, 1926 Hill.

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LINER FOR ELECTRECAL CONNECTEBS.

Application filed June 7, 1926. Serial No. 114,099.

It is the object of the invention to proly through the slot 5. By bending'the lug vide a liner or bore-reducer for connecters 9 dmvnwardly upon the body of the confor electrical cables and conduits, which will nocter adjacent to the slot 5, the liner will 35 adapt a connecter of any given bore to adebe held lirmly in place. The liner mayalso quately lit a conduit or cable of a smaller be provided at its edge opposite lug 9 with size than that for which it was intended, or a spacing lug fitting the inner wall of v one of a different shape as well, the connecter.

It will be understood from the following It will be understood that the specific description that the invention may be utilform of the liner, as well as the size of the 10 'ized in connection with connecters of varilug or spacer 10, may be varied as desired. ous types, but I have shown it in the accom- It will also be evident that by the use of a panying drawings as applied to an outlet box suitable tool, the bent-over lug 9 may be connecter of a type familiarly known as the straightened out and the liner be withdrawn squeeze type. Figure 1 is a view inelevafrom the connecter. tion of such a connecter embodying the in-' in Figure 4. I have shown a modified form. vention. Figure 2 is a horizontal cross secof liner which fits the entire inner face of tion on the line IIII of Figure 1. Figthe connecter and whichis provided with a ure 3 is a perspective View of the preferred lug 9, as in the other form. form oi liner. Flgure 4 1s a view similar to I claim as my lnventionz Figure 2, showing a modified form of liner. The comblnatlon with an electrical con- The connecter comprises the cylindrical necter having a hollow cylindrical portion sleeve portion 1, and the bifurcated extenadapted to receive a conductor and a radial sion 2, having the cooperating ears 3 and ad slot in itsside wall, of a liner arranged bejusting screw 4, together with the segmental tween the conductor and the inner wall of 25 slot 5, all as usual in connecters of this type. the connecter and having a lug projecting The liner 6 has a bowed or segmental body laterally through said slot and bent into portion 7, which may terminate at one end in binding engagement with the outer wall of the ear 8, lying in the space between the ears the connecter. v 3 of the connecter. At its inner end the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 30 body portion 7 is provided with a lug 9, so my hand. I

located that when the liner is slipped into 7 the connecter the lug 9 is projected outward- MARTIN M. CLAYTON. 

